This article is the first of a two-part series critically examining the role of lawyers in assisting clients in denying responsibility for harmsthey have caused. If a person injures another, the moral responseis for the injureractively to take responsibility for what he has done. In contrast, the common practice withinour legal culture is for injurersto deny responsibility for harms they commit. Theimmoral, in other words, has become the legally normal. In this Article, Professor Cohen analyzes the moral foundations of responsibility-taking. He also explores the moral, psychological, and spiritual risks to injurers who knowingly deny responsibility for harms they have caused.